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Affective temperament polygenic risk scores predict depression: investigating the role of environmental factors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2023
Abstract
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Introduction
Depressive disorders are known heterogeneous both in their clinical manifestations and etiopathophysiology. Affective temperaments have a strong biological background and heritability, manifest at early age and remain stable throughout the life span, and have a pathoplastic effect in depression. Thus, they have been suggested as intermediate phenotypes for depression.
Objectives
Our aim was to investigate if polygenic risk scores (PRS) calculated for the five affective temperaments predict depression and to examine their interaction effects of early and recent stressors.
Methods
1820 nonrelated participants from a general population were genotyped and provided data on current depression (Brief Symptom Inventory-BSI), early (Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, CHA) and recent stressors (List of Threatening Life Events, RLE), and affective temperaments (Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego, TEMPS-A). Our previously performed TEMPS-A GWAS analysis was used as discovery sample and the NewMood database as target sample for analysing the effects of affective temperament PRS on depression. Linear regression models were used to calculate the interaction effect of early and recent stressors.
Results
PRSs derived from anxious, cyclothymic, depressive, and irritable temperaments had a significant effect on current depression, explaining 2.6-7.1% of variance. PRSs calculated from the anxious, depressive and hyperthymic temperaments significantly predicted current depression in interaction with CHA, explaining 10% of variance. In case of interaction models including both early and recent stressors, a significant effect of depressive PRS was found. Detailed results are shown in Table 1.
| anxious | cyclothymic | depressive | hyperthymic | irritable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| on BSI-depression | R2 | .0033 | .0071 | .0032 | .0016 | .0026 |
| p-value | .011 | .0002 | .011 | .076 | .022 | |
| in interaction with CHA | R2 | .1062 | .1037 | .1029 | .1015 | .1022 |
| p-value | .008 | .551 | .027 | .038 | .531 | |
| in interaction with RLE | R2 | .0365 | .0402 | .0362 | .0369 | .0368 |
| p-value | .396 | .140 | .483 | .227 | .480 | |
| in interaction with CHA and RLE | R2 | .1387 | .1384 | .1395 | .1344 | .1348 |
| p-value | .101 | .400 | .0009 | .981 | .930 |
Conclusions
Our results confirm the genetic association between affective temperaments and depressive symptoms, which highlight their role as possible clinically relevant intermediate phenotypes for depression.
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- European Psychiatry , Volume 66 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 31st European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2023 , pp. S348
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- © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the European Psychiatric Association
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